Truths About Tourette's: What Do You Know?

Middle Age, around 30 yrs

Elderly, later than sixty

Young adulthood, college age

Adolescence and childhood

Bad parenting

Ear infections when the bacteria gets into your brain and begins to attack the parts associated with thinking and self-control

A genetic mutation that is inherited, resulting in some chemical imbalances deep in the brain

They want attention or are bored and like to be annoying

They worry constantly and doing these things is how they try to cheer up and become very angry and afraid when they are not doing these thigns

They have feeling in part of their body that seems to tell them to do a certain thing with the body part, and can't control it

They always scream and curse a lot

They may sniff, bark, chirp, repeat other people's words, and sigh, and very rarely, may curse when they do not want to

They always make nonsense noises and aren't able to make any other sounds, and can't talk either

Facial twitches, head-shaking and random, jerky arm and leg movements,, and more complex tics can be longer, like moving your hands in a pattern or harmful like hitting or biting. Sometimes a person has tics where they freeze in place for a few seconds.

Slow and flowing, like dancing, and the person only does them when they see or hear a certain thing

Very hard to notice, because they only move in their fingers and feet, and only move when they are stiff or their body part has fallen asleep

Cold medicine, because it helps relax their muscles and makes their movements less jerky

No medicines, because it's too dangerous to take the pills, so the use special diets instead

Sedative and, neuroleptics, or drugs used to change brain function by supplying chemicals that are imbalanced and cause tics

Dyskenesia is where a person bleeds from their mouth and nose so much that they can die, and dystonia is falling asleep randomly which can cause accidents

Dyskenesia is fainting and seizures that can kill them, dystonia is having a hard time breathing

Dyskenesia is uncontrollable movements of the mouth and body, which can be permanent in some cases, and dystonia is twisting and cramping of muscles where a person's limbs draw in painfully and their head may flex to the side or upwards

They get a sore throat or lung infections

It's winter or otherwise in a colder environment

In early adulthood or late teen years, when it often goes away

Long-term treatment with very strong, cell-altering drugs that retrain brain cells to work properly

Removing parts of muscles where tics are worst and putting in stiff rods to stop movements

Brain surgery to put a pacemaker deep in the brain and help control the misfiring neurons

Get them something to drink and talk to them about their tics

Tell them to leave or try to get away from the person who is ticcing

Ignore the tics and go on like nothing is out of the usual

Repeating words is called kallomania, and freezing is startleshock

Repeatingn words is called phonorepetition, and freezing is pseudo-paralysis

Repeating words is echolalia, and freezing is called blocking